Nerium oleander could be used for sustainable management of traffic-borne elemental-enriched roadside soils

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Metal pollutants released from motor vehicles are deposited in roadside environments. Metals are non-biodegradable and biomagnify in the food chain causing significant health hazards at all levels of the ecosystem. Hence, management of contaminated roadside verges is critically important and should be kept in mind while planning specific management strategies of such areas. Native vegetation could help to decontaminate heavy metal polluted soils in the best sustainable way. Therefore, this study was designed to assess the potential of Nerium oleander to accumulate heavy metals commonly released by automobiles such as Pb, Cd, Ni, and Zn along with various C and N compounds from five different locations along a busy road in Punjab, Pakistan, during summer and winter seasons. N. oleander showed the ability to absorb C, N, and heavy metals Pb and Cd; the maximum concentration of Pb and Cd was 8.991 mg kg-1 and 0.599 mg kg-1, respectively. These pollutants negatively affected photosynthetic pigments, gas exchange attributes, soluble proteins, and free amino acids. But antioxidant activity of N. oleander was found to be increased in both seasons. The metal accumulation in the plant was higher in the summer though. We highly recommend that by growing N. oleander at roadside verges for decontamination of vehicular pollutants could lead to sustainable management of these corridors.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Environmental science and pollution research international - 30(2023), 14 vom: 09. März, Seite 40551-40562

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Khalid, Noreen [VerfasserIn]
Noman, Ali [VerfasserIn]
Nazir, Atia [VerfasserIn]
Tufail, Aasma [VerfasserIn]
Hadayat, Naila [VerfasserIn]
Alzuaibr, Fahad Mohammed [VerfasserIn]
Ikram, Sobia [VerfasserIn]
Akhter, Noreen [VerfasserIn]
Hussain, Mumtaz [VerfasserIn]
Aqeel, Muhammad [VerfasserIn]

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00BH33GNGH
2P299V784P
Cadmium
Environmental Pollutants
Journal Article
Lead
Metals, Heavy
N. oleander
Phytomonitoring
Roadsides
Soil
Soil Pollutants
Vehicle Emissions
Vehicle emissions

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Date Completed 01.09.2023

Date Revised 01.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11356-023-25160-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351336680